According to reports, nearly the entire island nation of Cyprus was blacked out by a problem with a local power plant that caused a wider grid outage Tuesday.
Supplies of power have been low in Cyprus since an accidental 2011 explosion that severely damaged the 700 MW Vassilikos power plant and drastically lowered capacity.
The state-controlled Cyprus Electric Authority said A unit of the 460 MW Dhekelia Power Station, about 10 miles east of the port city of Larnaca, had stopped functioning late Tuesday.
